What was the profession of John Madden Curse ?
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936) is a former American football player in the National Football League, a former NFL head coach with the Oakland Raiders, a football video game magnate and a former color commentator for NFL telecasts. In 2006, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career. As for the so called “Madden Curse,” that refers to where the player (and his team) that grace the front cover of the John Madden Football video game end up having a sub par season the following year. http://fantom1979.homeip.net/madden.html Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
Could the curse strike again? Many around the gaming community and most avid Madden players are believers in the curse. Not the curse tabloids put on all of us talking about the Hilton sisters every day, but the dreaded ‘Madden Cover Curse’. With the news that Steelers strong safety Troy Polamalu will be gracing the Madden 2010 cover, one can only wonder. One possible loop hole with this years version though, could be the fact Polamalu is sharing the cover with Cardinals wideout Larry Fitzgerald. The shared cover has never been done before, so maybe only one of the players will be effected by the curse, maybe neither will be. Heck maybe there is no curse and we are all just crazy. Superstitions are pretty prevalent in almost every sport. Whether its the North Carolina shorts that Michael Jordan wore under his Bulls shorts for every game, Patrick Roy talking to the goal posts, to Roger Clemens who always touched the head of the Babe Ruth statue before playing at Yankee stadium, sports a
From Wikipedia: Prior to 1999, every annual installment of the Madden NFL series primarily featured John Madden on its cover. In 1999, Electronic Arts selected Garrison Hearst to appear on the cover, and has since featured one of the league’s top players on every annual installment. Since then, certain players have experienced a decline in performance, usually due to an injury. For example, quarterback Michael Vick appeared on the cover of Madden NFL 2004, and suffered a leg injury that sidelined him for most of the 2004 season. In a similar example, running back Shaun Alexander, then the league’s reigning Most Valuable Player, was featured on the cover of Madden NFL 2007, and sustained a foot injury that caused him to miss six starts. As a result, Alexander’s rushing statistics were substantially less than those from the previous season. When asked about the “Madden Curse”, Chris Erb, the EA Sports director of marketing, commented, “I don’t know that we believe in the curse. The playe
